10/21/2015

El Bocho

El Bocho


El Bocho works as a typographer and as an illustrator in his daily life. However, during the night he changes the medium and uses the city as a playground. He keeps his real name as a secret, he's doing it because anonymity is an essential for the street artist and he loves the kick of creating illegal art, through this he makes himself often punishable.
Besides his exhibition in the gallery, he applies his work on the street. His works were founded in the streets since 1997-already before he starts his illustration and the study of typography. He's among one of the artists who stamps the streets of Berlin visibly with his special and original works, which made him popular not only within Germany but world wide.
What's important for him is the work done beyond the art scene, because this gets almost in-touch with everybody than art in galleries, so he collected the reactions of the viewers and applied it into his works. That's how it appears a constant flow of communication within the public. To get contact or in touch with the people he elects items for his work which are easy to present, on his humorous poster series he comments down the way of life in the city. In his portrait series, in which you can find the Berlin gallery named Raab as well as on the streets of Berlin he also dives into the intellectual world of the citizens. For the creation that he uses hand made posters which are four meters long. He uses his own skills and technique to placard the walls because his special poster paper connects in a slowly procedure with the subsoil by means of the sun and wind.
Besides the established streetart techniques like installations, templates or cut, El Bocho also uses wall tiles which he already installed in many European metropolises.

Here's an interview (Unfortunately it's in German).









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